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Day Facts for 23-12-2016 - CLIMATE, FILMS, LAW, SOCIETY, SPORTS

1. Greenhouse gases (CO2, methane, water vapour..) trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere and warm the planet. But without this, the temperature on Earth would be too cold to support life.
2. Ben-Hur (1959), Titanic (1997) and Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King (2003) won 11 Oscar trophies, the highest ever.
3. Lata Mangeshkar's song ‘Ae Malik Tere Bande Hum’ from ‘Do Aankhen Barah Haath’ (1957) originally composed by Vasant Desai, was adopted by a Pakistani school as the school anthem.
4. Rain forests are the lungs of Earth, as trees store carbon dioxide as they grow. By destroying rainforests, we release huge amounts of carbon in the atmosphere.
5. Cricket-legend Sunil Gavaskar, the first to reach 10,000 Test runs and scoring 34 Test centuries overall, was out three times off the first ball of a Test! [bowlers : Geoff Arnold (Edgbaston, 1974), Malcolm Marshall (Kolkata, 1984) and Imran Khan (Jaipur, 1987)].
6. Meryl Streep received 19 nominations for the Academy Awards so far, the highest anyone ever received.
7. China has no national army of its own! The People's Liberation Army (PLA) owes loyalty to the Communist Party, not the nation.
8. The population of India has crossed 134 crores till date. It is not expected to reverse for another 20 years at least.
9. The Supreme Court of India created the "Basic Structure Doctrine" in the past 3 decades, to define the areas in which no government (or Parliament) can ever legislate to change the status quo in Constitution.
10. Supreme Court judges in the USA do not retire. They vacate their positions only after passing away.